Monday, November 3, 2025

Ai Chats for Parts

Parts Chats with Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Copilot.

A chat request template is required to use Ai Chats with Parts.

Use Notepad or your favorite text editor to create and save a chat template file.

Copy, Paste and Save a Chat Request to a text file or Create your own.

The chat template should be saved in the same folder as the Parts_Frontend.accde file.

Example Template Text Files for Ai Chat Requests:

Gemini Search DigiKey and Mouser for Part Number and Alternate Parts. Include stock, price ranking and RoHS status. Display the data with URL links in a fitted table.

Perplexity Search DigiKey and Mouser for Part Number and Alternate Parts. Include stock, price ranking and RoHS status. Please begin the Conversation Name with Part Number.

Claude Search DigiKey and Mouser for Part Number and Alternate Parts. Include stock, price ranking and RoHS status. Please begin the Conversation Name with Part Number.

Copilot Search DigiKey and Mouser for Part Number and Alternate Parts. Include stock, price ranking and RoHS status. Please begin the Conversation Name with Part Number.

To start a Chat Select Part Number or Description in Parts then Click on | Ai Chat |

Use a single left mouse button click on one of the | Ai Chat | llinks and wait for Chat to complete before starting a another Chat request. 

Best practices . . . Close the Chat window before starting another Chat.

Selecting Description may be your best choice for finding Alternate Parts.

The Chat template file must begin with Gemini, Perplexity, Claude or Copilot and contain the keyword Part Number. See examples file in the latest Parts Download.

Part Number in the Template will be replaced with the selected Part Number or Description. 

Contact Parts if have any questions about Parts and Ai Chats.

That's It !

Friday, October 10, 2025

Altium Version Controlled Managed Parts

See https://g.co/gemini/share/1fb8afcab964

In short, "Version Controlled Managed Parts" in Altium refers to the secure, centralized, and fully revision-tracked management of your design components and projects within the Altium 365 or Altium Server ecosystem.

App Notes and Datasheets - Grounding Problems

Rick Hartley: Quotes

"I start all my classes with a comment I heard Lee Ritchey make 27 or 28 years ago, that app notes produced by IC manufacturers should be assumed wrong until proven right."

And . . .

Hartley: "Besides grounding problems, and we both know there are a million grounding problems in app notes, most of them have that wrong."

https://www.magazines007.com/pdf/Design007-June2020.pdf